Eric,
With a few exceptions, if a car's rusty in one place, it'll be rusty in
others. In the NW, when the rockers were perforated, it usually meant
that the whole car had trouble, usually in the door posta, rear fenders
(the wheelarch especially) and the front inner fender- to- scuttle
(firewall) areas.
The rockers are not too easy to replace (you have to cut the bottoms of
the rear fenders off, unhook (i.e. cut free) the front doorpost and the
rear doorshut, and then clean up the inner rocker (the flat, vertical
part of the body. But here's the rub- if the outer rocker's gone,
usually that inner piece is gone, too. And THAT is a REAL pain to
change.
Add to all this that many later high-windshield cars had galv. rockers
(INSIDE only!) so the rockers were usually last to go and you've got a
car that's potentially all rust.
So offer only what a good drivetrain's worth, and you won't get burned
if you find out later that this car's a rustmobile!
Good luck,
Toby
Seattle
Eric R. Wittinger wrote:
>
> Hi all, a quick question to those that have had some experience int metal
> working on cars..
> I looked at a 69 2l last night the car was great except for the rocker
> pannels, the body part that frames teh bottom of the door. The problem:
> is that the lower half of the driver side one is gone, that is you can
> open the door and see on problems but get on your hands and knees and hey
> look a large hole for my arm :-) The passanger side is not as bad just
> places to stick your hand in... The rest of the car is rust free, and in
> great shape?
> Eric
>
> 66 1600 daily driver
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